Well put, I've also had it boil down to value differences pretty often. The nice thing about steelmanning is that you can identify those value differences more

Well put, I've also had it boil down to value differences pretty often. The nice thing about steelmanning is that you can identify those value differences more quickly. One time I was in an argument that was looking to get pretty heated, but with steelmanning I was able to find the underlying value difference, point out that we disagreed on it, and then we just kind of sat there in awkward silence for a second and moved on to play Starcraft. It was a good day.